Tim Guido

German abortion survivor

The Oldenburg Baby was the name given by the German media to Tim, an infant born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany on 6 July 1997.

Tim was born prematurely in the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy as the result of a failed late-term abortion.Doctors had expected the child would soon die and thus withheld treatment for nine hours.

He became a focus of the debate surrounding abortion, especially late-term abortion, and its legal and ethical consequences.Tim died on the 4th of January 2019 from a lung infection; he was 21 years old.